CREATIVITY and INNOVATION

Through a partnership between the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Department of
Education. The Arts First Aid Grant Program provides Kentucky school administrators, teachers and students
with a high quality intensive arts education experience that aligns curriculum with the Kentucky
Academic Standards for the Arts.

The Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant provides up to $3,000 to a Kentucky
master traditional artist to teach skills, practices and culture to a less experienced artist from the
same community during the course of a year.

Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition created by the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Poetry Foundation and administered in partnership with the state
arts agencies. Each participating school receives an artist residency and the opportunity for the school
champion to attend the state competition with a chaperone. The state champion goes on to the national
competition in Washington, D.C.

Each spring the Kentucky Arts Council hosts the state-wide Poetry Out Loud competition
for high school students. Kentucky’s state champion proceeds to the national finals in
Washington, D.C., in April.

The Teaching Art Together Grant lets teachers collaborate with practicing, professional
artists on the design and implementation of innovative one- to four-week residencies. Residencies provide
teachers with the tools to continue to incorporate the arts into the curriculum after the residency is completed.

The Teaching Artists Directory is an online directory of Kentucky artists who produce
high quality artistic work and have the skills and competencies needed to work with teachers and students
in designing and implementing arts education programs.

The TranspARTation Grant enables Kentucky teachers and schools to offer students high
quality arts experiences by providing transportation funding. Grants will be based on the mileage from
the school building to the arts organization or performance venue and the number of buses necessary. Grant
requests under $100 are ineligible.